﻿BIRDS 
  OF 
  NEW 
  YORK 
  

  

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  For 
  the 
  original 
  and 
  complete 
  description 
  the 
  reader 
  is 
  referred 
  to 
  

   Brewster, 
  Auk, 
  volume 
  3, 
  pages 
  389-93. 
  

  

  This 
  species 
  was 
  made 
  known 
  to 
  the 
  scientific 
  world 
  from 
  a 
  specimen 
  

   seciired 
  in 
  this 
  State 
  and 
  noted 
  by 
  Mr 
  Brewster, 
  in 
  Bulletin 
  JSTuttall 
  Orni- 
  

   thological 
  Club, 
  volume 
  6, 
  pages 
  91-97. 
  The 
  story 
  of 
  its 
  discovery 
  maybe 
  

   interesting 
  to 
  some 
  of 
  our 
  readers. 
  "Some 
  months 
  since 
  while 
  passing 
  the 
  

   natural 
  history 
  store 
  of 
  W. 
  J. 
  Knowlton, 
  Tremont 
  street, 
  Boston, 
  my 
  atten- 
  

   tion 
  was 
  attracted 
  by 
  a 
  mounted 
  petrel, 
  which, 
  with 
  spread 
  wings, 
  hung 
  con- 
  

   spicuously 
  in 
  the 
  window. 
  I 
  saw 
  at 
  once 
  it 
  was 
  a 
  species 
  new 
  to 
  me 
  and, 
  upon 
  

   entering, 
  was 
  greatly 
  astonished 
  to 
  learn 
  th 
  at 
  it 
  had 
  been 
  received 
  only 
  a 
  short 
  

  

  Scaled 
  petrel. 
  Aestrelata 
  scalaris 
  Brewster. 
  Photo 
  from 
  type 
  specimen 
  taken 
  at 
  

   Mount 
  Morris. 
  Now 
  in 
  Mr 
  Brewster's 
  collection. 
  J 
  nat. 
  size 
  

  

  time 
  before 
  in 
  the 
  flesh, 
  and 
  in 
  a 
  comparatively 
  fresh 
  condition. 
  Further 
  in- 
  

   quiries 
  elicited 
  the 
  information 
  that 
  it 
  had 
  been 
  mounted 
  for 
  MrE. 
  H. 
  Wood- 
  

   man 
  of 
  Concord, 
  N. 
  H., 
  and 
  upon 
  writing 
  to 
  that 
  gentleman, 
  I 
  was 
  very 
  kindly 
  

   put 
  in 
  the 
  possession 
  of 
  the 
  following 
  particulars. 
  The 
  bird 
  had 
  been 
  sent 
  

   him 
  by 
  a 
  client, 
  Mr 
  Nathan 
  F. 
  Smith, 
  who 
  conducts 
  a 
  large 
  farm 
  at 
  Mt 
  

   Morris, 
  Livingston 
  co., 
  New 
  York. 
  One 
  of 
  the 
  laborers 
  while 
  plough- 
  

   ing 
  an 
  old 
  cornfield, 
  noticed 
  it 
  running 
  in 
  a 
  freshly 
  turned 
  furrow 
  and 
  

   despatched 
  it 
  with 
  a 
  stick. 
  It 
  was 
  apparently 
  exhausted, 
  for 
  it 
  made 
  no 
  

   attempt 
  to 
  escape. 
  This 
  was 
  early 
  in 
  April 
  1880, 
  probably 
  not 
  far 
  from 
  

   the 
  5th 
  of 
  the 
  month, 
  as 
  I 
  find 
  its 
  reception 
  recorded 
  on 
  Mr 
  Knowlton's 
  

   books 
  as 
  April 
  10. 
  A 
  letter 
  afterwards 
  received 
  from 
  Mr 
  Smith 
  confirms 
  

   all 
  of 
  these 
  facts, 
  but 
  adds 
  nothing 
  of 
  interest, 
  save 
  that 
  the 
  farm 
  com- 
  

  

  